AN exhibition of photographs you have submitted for the for 2016 Ovingham village calendar will be held in the reading room on Saturday, September 26 from 1pm until 4pm.

Thank you for the photographs submitted so far and keep them coming in. Just email them to djnjordon@hotmail.co.uk or deliver to Rosemount House next to the first school.

Please do so as soon as possible, as the deadline for submission is Monday, August 31.

ST Mary’s Church flower festival Fire and Ice on Friday, August 28 and Saturday, August 29 from 10am until 4pm and Sunday, August 30 from 11am until 4pm, concluding with a Songs of Praise.

There will be a preview night on Thursday, August 27 at 7.30pm with an official opening by Hannah Bayman.

Refreshments will be available throughout the festival in the reading room.

On Saturday, August 29, there will be a musical evening in church, and flower designer Anne Codd will be present along with other flower arrangers from Northumberland and Durham.

Donations are welcome in aid of St Mary’s Church’s heating and development project.